Jane Clayson Quotes

I never wanted to be defined by what I did for a living.

Jane Clayson

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• I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Battle
  • Cry
  • Nine

• You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Work
  • God

• I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Done
  • Age
  • Acting

• Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Door
  • Wait
  • Elevator

• 'Stay With Me,' for me, is my own personal anthem to the 'walk of shame...' that we've all gone through. It's the feeling after a one-night stand of not wanting that person to leave, even if you don't love them and don't even like them. It's about having that body next to you.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Night
  • Feeling

• I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Hate
  • Stop
  • Television

• I think everyone's a little afraid of being part of a trend, because you get compared to each other. Writers tend to have a lot of camaraderie, and when you're constantly compared to someone else, it kind of damages that camaraderie, but I think this is a great trend. I'm honored to be a part of it in many ways.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Great
  • Think
  • Kind

• I feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Myself
  • Sometimes
  • Enjoy

• Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

  

  E. B. White
  • Fall
  • Act
  • Circus

• Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Love
  • Romantic
  • For Her

• I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Think
  • Day
  • Period

• If you push down that pyramid of power and spread out the base, every member gets a chance to file their bill and have it heard and file their amendment and have it heard, as opposed to the system that we have now, which closes out, closes down bills, limits debate, and so forth.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • Chance
  • Limits

• Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.

  

  Garth Davis
  • Smart
  • Need
  • Everything

• If U.S. air, naval, missile, and ground forces were not in and around Korea, and if we were not treaty-bound to fight alongside South Korea, there would be no reason for Kim to build rockets to threaten a distant superpower that could reduce his hermit kingdom to ashes.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Air
  • Fight
  • Build

• I think we must be careful about too easily accepting, or being too easily grateful for, sacrifices made by others, especially if we have made none ourselves.

  

  Wendell Berry

• Hopeless of all he dared to hope so long, The music born within him dies away; Even the song he loved becomes a pain, Full-freighted with a yearning all in vain.

  

  Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • Music
  • Long
  • Hope

• I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.

  

  Benazir Bhutto
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Afghanistan is the land of Pashtuns. It always has been, always will be. We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, not this Flat-Nose here. His people pollute our homeland, our watan. They dirty our blood.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • People
  • True
  • Dirty

• Art is all about giving yourself these terrifying challenges, these peaks to climb. You're at the bottom of the mountain at the start of every new project thinking, 'Am I going to make it?'

  

  Phyllida Lloyd
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Giving

• I look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life.

  

  Little Richard
  • Life
  • Rock
  • Legend

• If the Bird does not sing, Kill it.

  

  Oda Nobunaga
  • Bird
  • Kill
  • Sing

• I sang for 'Mirror Mirror.' I love singing.

  

  Lily Collins
  • Singing
  • Mirror

• The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.

  

  John Milton
  • Rest
  • Place
  • Providence

• I never wanted to be defined by what I did for a living.

  

  Jane Clayson